Disorganized but Undismayed:
Better off than Europe London, Aug. 28. 3 A leading article in the "Times! commenting on the situation in China says, despite the gloomy prospects of an imu adiate solution of the country's difficulties, it is something to know that there, are men eager for reform and courtageous enough to continue striving for. them despite innumerable difficulties.
As a state China is thoroughly disorganized, but as a social structure she is still a going concern as the magnitude of her foreign trade proves. She, at least, is infinitely better off than many states in Europe. She possesses proved patriots but is handicapped by ignorance of the standards of value of the new political system which has been forced upon her by the revolution, and the present confusion is but an incident in her history.
That she has much to learn and much to go through before she acquires stability is inevitable, but it is unthinkable that a race like the Chinese, endowed with vigour and industry, will fai] to emerge successfully from its disordered political condition.—Reuters Special Service.
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